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litheraAccording to Variety, both 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures are developing big screen tales about Spartan warriors.
Fox has set screenwriter Erik Jendresen to write The 300 Spartans, an epic-sized film about the elite Greek warriors who held off ten thousand Persian invaders in the Battle of Thermoplyae. The title comes from the 1962 Fox film, but the new film is going to be more ambitious, says the trade.
Meanwhile, Universal has pegged Thermopylae for screen treatment in the form of Gates of Fire, the Steven Pressfield novel scripted by David Self for Heat helmer Michael Mann.
DUDE! Thermopylae. So cool.
And this:
Genial production designer Owen Paterson, hunkered before a mock-Chinatown facade, reveals that the 'Matrix' world exists 600 years in the future, that 'Reloaded' takes place over one day, that a setpiece fight-sequence kicks off in the virtual Tea House in front of him, and that now there are four giant hovercrafts instead of one.
Someone taking ideas much?
Fox has set screenwriter Erik Jendresen to write The 300 Spartans, an epic-sized film about the elite Greek warriors who held off ten thousand Persian invaders in the Battle of Thermoplyae. The title comes from the 1962 Fox film, but the new film is going to be more ambitious, says the trade.
Meanwhile, Universal has pegged Thermopylae for screen treatment in the form of Gates of Fire, the Steven Pressfield novel scripted by David Self for Heat helmer Michael Mann.
DUDE! Thermopylae. So cool.
And this:
Genial production designer Owen Paterson, hunkered before a mock-Chinatown facade, reveals that the 'Matrix' world exists 600 years in the future, that 'Reloaded' takes place over one day, that a setpiece fight-sequence kicks off in the virtual Tea House in front of him, and that now there are four giant hovercrafts instead of one.
Someone taking ideas much?
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Date: 2002-06-13 02:53 pm (UTC)